Grauniad editorial on the coalitions record on 'liberty'

Hard to find much to disagree with here. I particularly like "Labour is clinging on to its recent authoritarianism despite losing all authority".

It'll be interesting to see, though, what happens when the quick wins - ID cards, Section 44 stops - dry up and the more difficult stuff, like prisons, comes to the fore. I kind of think Ken Clark really means it. But do his backbenchers?

And then, of course, there are the calls for the return of the death penalty, the banning of full veils, tilts at the Human Rights Act and other somewhat less 'liberty-oriented' missives emerging from the Tories (and, to be fair, elsewhere as well).